Season 1 (2009)

Birth of the Moon
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July 20, 2009 • 24m

Scientists have been reconstructing the history of the Moon by scouring its surface, mapping its mountains and craters, and probin...Read more

Attack of the Sun
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July 27, 2009 • 24m

Massive solar eruptions take aim at our high-tech society. 93 million miles away... an angry sun vents its rage. Dark regions, cal...Read more

Super Hurricanes
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August 12, 2009 • 24m

Why some tropical storms erupt into monster hurricanes capable of wrecking coastlines. Can they be predicted? Hurricanes are tropi...Read more

Saturn's Mysterious Moons
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August 20, 2009 • 24m

From the Cassini spacecraft comes one of the greatest photographic collections. Scientists are using it to uncover a trail of clue...Read more

The Largest Black Holes in the Universe
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September 27, 2009 • 24m

Our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to harbor millions of black holes, the ultra dense remnants of dead stars. But now, in the univers...Read more

How Large Is the Universe?
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October 20, 2009 • 24m

The mind-blowing answer comes from a theory describing the first micro-moments of our universe. Just as scientists began to make p...Read more

When Will Time End
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November 10, 2009 • 24m

How long will the Universe as we know it survive? The answer depends on whether Stephen Hawking's theory about how black holes dec...Read more

The Incredible Journey of Apollo 12
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November 18, 2009 • 24m

It's the ultimate buddy movie. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the second pair of Apollo astronauts to land on the moon. They combi...Read more

Supermassive Black Hole in the Milky Way Galaxy
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December 9, 2009 • 24m

Thick dust and blinding starlight have long obscured our vision into the mysterious inner regions of our Milky Way galaxy. And yet...Read more

Mars: Earth That Never Was
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December 21, 2009 • 24m

Did Mars long ago develop far enough for life to arise? If so, does anything still live somewhere underground? The search for answ...Read more

The Search for Earth-like Planets
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January 8, 2010 • 24m

What is the search for Earth-like planets telling us about our place in the cosmos? Is our Earth one of countless life-bearing wor...Read more

Voyage to Pandora: First Interstellar Space Flight
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February 8, 2010 • 24m

Pandora is the idyllic blue world featured in the movie Avatar. Its location is a real place: Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to ...Read more

Venus: Death of a Planet
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June 9, 2010 • 24m

Long ago, from the fires of our Sun's birth, twin planets emerged: Venus and Earth. Nature draped one world in the greens and blue...Read more

Cosmic Energy: Cold Sparks to Black Holes
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September 10, 2010 • 24m

What's the hottest place in the universe? What's it like inside a Black Hole? This video climbs the power scales of the universe, ...Read more

Is the Universe Infinite?
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November 23, 2010 • 24m

Explore the biggest question of all. How far do the stars stretch out into space? And what's beyond them? In modern times, we buil...Read more

Alien Planets & Eyeball Earths: The Search for Habitable Planets
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February 21, 2011 • 24m

The hunt for planets beyond our solar system has reached a fever pitch. Scientists are beginning to envision what these worlds are...Read more

The Riddle of AntiMatter
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August 19, 2011 • 24m

One of the deepest mysteries about how our universe came to be may finally be yielding to human investigation. Scientists are moun...Read more

Mysteries of a Dark Universe
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October 14, 2011 • 24m

Cosmology has been turned on its head by a stunning discovery that the universe is flying apart in all directions at an ever-incre...Read more

Crashing Into the Moon
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May 11, 2012 • 24m

Over the next decade, the United States, Japan, India, China, Russia, and even private companies, are planning to send spacecraft ...Read more

The Most Powerful Objects in the Universe
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September 23, 2012 • 24m

What are the energy extremes that define our universe? And how much power can the cosmos wield? Climb a ladder of increasingly pow...Read more

Birth of a Black Hole
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November 29, 2012 • 24m

Spy satellites first saw these brief but extremely bright flashes of light in the 1960s. For three decades, gamma ray bursts for d...Read more

Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms
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February 15, 2013 • 24m

Join a small team of rocket designers as they open a window into the future of space travel.

Voyager: Journey to the Stars
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April 6, 2013 • 24m

The two Voyager spacecraft are part of an ancient quest to push beyond our boundaries... to see what lies beyond the horizon. Now ...Read more

Earth in 1000 Years
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October 4, 2013 • 24m

There are signs that Earth’s great stores of ice are beginning to melt. With sea levels beginning to rise, scientists are looking ...Read more

Reinventing Space Flight
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February 3, 2014 • 24m

Follow Dr. Ben Longmier and his team into the rugged Alaskan wilderness on a quest to build a whole new type of rocket engine. The...Read more

Supervolcanoes
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May 23, 2014 • 24m

They are eruptions so vast, so Earth-shattering, they have changed the history of our planet. Climate collapse. Toxic turmoil. Mas...Read more

Fate of Antarctica
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July 21, 2014 • 24m

The episode of Cosmic Journeys explores the intersection of paleoclimate and current climate science. Through its turbulent histor...Read more

Life: Destiny or Chance?
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September 19, 2014 • 24m

Are the universe and its physical laws so fine-tuned that the rise of life is inevitable? Or is life a fluke, a lucky roll of cosm...Read more

Interstellar Flight
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October 29, 2014 • 24m

Explore the challenges of interstellar flight and the technological possibilities that may one day send us on a long voyage out in...Read more

The Age of Hubble
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December 13, 2014 • 24m

This staggeringly visual feast of a documentary Brings cutting-edge findings of modern astronomy to life with state-of-the-art ani...Read more

Glimpsing the Solar System's Birth
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July 10, 2015 • 24m

Where do you look to glimpse the birth of a solar system like ours? Our sun is thought to have formed along with a range of stella...Read more

Hubble: Universe in Motion
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July 31, 2015 • 24m

Since its launch 25 Years ago, the Hubble Telescope has returned images of unprecedented beauty of a dynamic and changing universe.

SuperTornado: Anatomy of a MegaDisaster
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December 18, 2015 • 24m

May 22nd, 2011. A powerful tornado cut a mile-wide swath through Joplin, Missouri, the costliest and one of the deadliest tornado ...Read more

Day of the Asteroid
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May 20, 2016 • 24m

Asteroids racing through the solar system have smashed into Earth before. What are the chances we'll get hit again? Armed with new...Read more

Black Holes and the High Energy Universe
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June 17, 2016 • 24m

Astronomers are probing the high-energy cosmic frontier with a series of key missions: Fermi, Swift, Chandra, NuSTAR, and Hubble.

The Improbable Rise of Planet Earth
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June 23, 2016 • 24m

Planet hunters have detected nearly 5000 confirmed and candidate planets beyond our solar system. Most sun-like stars, it seems, a...Read more

Star Crash: The Explosion that Transformed Astronomy
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November 13, 2017 • 24m

A startling collision in an ancient galaxy slews Earth's largest telescopes to a spot in the Hydra constellation. Two rapidly spin...Read more